[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

[David K. Gasaway]

On 22 Mar 2008 at 3:58, Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> If we have them in the wiki, and we write a script to make
> setting these ARs easy - be it a server script, or a GreaseMonkey/UserJS
> script - we'll be pulling these lists all the time.  

This is the first I've heard of trying to script a search of the wiki 
page.  I wouldn't support such a thing.  But then again, I don't 
understand why it would be necessary.  In the discussion leading to 
this test, it was proposed that the wiki pages would remain available 
to organize the work lists (for browsability and lookup), provide 
translations for the non-English users, provide multi-catalog 
references, and store miscellaneous notes about the works.  You would 
like to roll all of these functions into the folksonomy tags?

> Using what we currently have (or will, once work lists
> actually exist), why not instead use tags?  

Sorry, I can't support using the *folksonomy* tags for anything other 
than *folksonomy*.

I feel we should simply accept the ugly wrinkles of this hack (such as 
manual lookup in the CSGS page or work list) and not expend any effort 
polluting the UI with additional ugly hacks to make our lives a little 
easier.  These features will have to wait until NGS.

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